Improvement in churns



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A. s; GALLIHER, for BEisToL, TENNESSEE.

.Lette/rspPatent No. 87,657, dated Mal/rch 9, 1869.

IIVIPROVENIENT IN CHURNS.

The Schedule x'efen'edtu in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom it Imol/y conce/rn:

Beit known that I, A. S. GALLIHER, of Bristol, Sullivan county, State of Tennessee, have invented an Improvd Uhuru; and I do hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of Vthis specication, in which- Figure 1 represents a tbp view, and

Figure 2, a vertical section ofthe churn.` y A represents a square box, containing the churning-- devices. y

B B B are the beaters, that are horizontal strips 'of equal length, extending through and on each side of two upright shafts, O c, and operating between each other, the shafts C operating on pivot-points in the bottom of the box, and'their upper ends extending through the top, with a pinion, D, on each shaft, and the journals of the shafts O, 'revolving in boxes, E E, at top.

The 'pinions D D are driven by a main toothed wheel, G, that is operated by a crank, H, at top of the churn.,

J are four upright stationary breakers, or beaters, located at the corners or s'des of the box A.

The nature of my invention consists in the doubleacting horizontal beaters, operating on upright shafts, propelledby the pinions and toothed wheel at top, and worked by the crank at top, and the object is to secure an -easier working of the churn at the top of the churn, and aA decided advantage over a side operation, both in breaking the cream and collecting the butter, as the cream is always Working out and running down the outside. of the churn, when the beaters are operated from the side, and a great annoyance to the operator.

I am aware that double-acting beaters arev used and operated from the side of a churn, but these I do not claim.

I do not claim any upright bevel-gearing, asthat has been used before; but i What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement 'of the horizontal triple gearing D D, and G, with the top braces E E, stationary beaters J J, and4 double-acting beaters B B, when constructed and operating Aas herein described, and for the purposes lset forth.

A. S., GALLIHER.

Witnesses:

' R. A. GARMACK,

' J. B. PALMER. 

